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The 36th Ludum Dare finished and I've made it again! This time without a live blog at @GameStad. Play the game here on the Ludum Dare entry page. The theme this time was Ancient Tech. My game is set in a fantasy world with tech far below ours. You, the GOD of eternal slumber get's awoken by a cult of worshippers. Once awoken this mechanic god initiates it's main program... Wil you be able to execute this program?

I've been drawing on live streams on Tuesdays for a while. During these streams I've been practicing some different kinds of art styles. This is one of those different styles. As a quick painting I really like them. But beyond that I still have doubt. Do you have suggestions? Tell me on twitter or the live stream itself.

The 35th Ludum Dare finished last monday and I&rsquo;ve made it again! I finished a game in 48 hours with pretty graphics decent graphics. It has been a very exciting week with lots of positive feedback. The theme was shapeshifting and the game turned out as a battle game, click and shapeshift for damage while you try to avoid receiving damage. You can play the game here: Play

The 34th Ludum Dare finished last monday! I participated with my intern Christa and we built a game around the themes &ldquo;two buttons&rdquo; and &ldquo;growing&rdquo;. The graphics turned out awesome and the gameplay itself is decent. Play a fish which eats other fish and nuclear waste! You know what happens when you eat nuclear waste right? Time for you to start growing: Play

You finally came up with the game of your dreams. You wrote everything down, used all available studies and it sounds too good to be true on paper. But how do you make sure it ends up being fun to play? You could build the game and throw in endless testing afterwards until your test subjects think it’s fun. But is that really the way to go? I think not. There are better ways to do quality checks. So what easier and quicker ways are there?

Creating an artistic game is one part. Making a game popular for an audience is another. My company creates games for businesses, a different kind of audience than Ludum Dare participants. How to make sure that a game will fit them? The key is to know your target audience to the bone, to make sure they keep playing and recommend it to friends. Our goal is to make lots of people play and enjoy our games. So, what does motivate a human to enjoy my games?

Although there are millions of games these days, only a few really succeed and even less are worth to play. How is this possible? A game consists of a set of rules, right? But a bunch of rules don’t make it fun to play. Actually, far from in my opinion. Throwing in some random rules doesn’t make a game good. So, which aspects are important related to the rules and make it worth the play? What gives rules the edge to play a game again and again?